F1 weather watch - Singapore Grand Prix expected rain as Lando Norris takes pole

A repetition of the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix - wherever dense rainfall disrupted the contention play - looked to beryllium connected the cards aft monsoon upwind struck earlier this week

The Singapore Grand Prix is expected to stay adust contempt archetypal fears of thunderstorms.

The land nation's unpredictable clime brought astir monsoon upwind earlier this week, with downpours threatening to disrupt the contention play similar they did successful 2022. But they mostly cleared earlier the enactment connected the way got underway.

As a result, the signifier sessions and qualifying were completed successful wide conditions. And it's forecast to beryllium much of the aforesaid aboriginal contiguous (September 22) erstwhile the contention gets underway astatine 8pm section clip (1pm UK time).

The Met Office judge there's little than a 5 per cent accidental of rainfall and there'll beryllium small unreality cover. The somesthesia volition stay 29 degrees Celcius, however.

And it volition consciousness much similar 32 degrees Celcius owed to the utmost humidity, estimated to beryllium astir 75%, which makes it 1 of the astir challenging races of the season.

It'll beryllium Lando Norris who leads disconnected the line aft helium pipped rubric rival Max Verstappen to rod position. The McLaren operator volition look to adjacent the 59-point spread to Red Bull's three-time world champion, but he'll person to flooded his mediocre tally of starts from P1 to bash so.

Lewis Hamilton qualified third, intimately followed by Mercedes team-mate George Russell. Oscar Piastri finished fifth, with Nico Hulkenberg securing a astonishment sixth.

Fernando Alonso volition commencement P7 for Aston Martin, portion Yuki Tsunoda volition beryllium eighth. Rounding retired the apical 10 was the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, who endured a nightmare Q3.

Sainz enactment his car into the partition astatine the last country arsenic helium revved up to commencement his archetypal flying thigh of the last session, bringing retired the reddish flags and scuppering astir of his counterparts including Leclerc, whose eventual clip was deleted for exceeding way limits.

Victory for Norris oregon Verstappen volition mean a caller victor astir the streets of Singapore, portion Hamilton volition fancy his chances of claiming a 5th triumph nether the lights if they go excessively embroiled successful the ain battle.